by Schiller
Auch das Schöne muß sterben! Das Menschen und Götter bezwinget
Schiller's sad elegy for the transience of beauty
All Poems
Odes 1.24
Mourning for a good man
by Horace
Quis desiderio sit pudor aut modus
Quintilius, a good man and a friend of Virgil, has died
Aeneid Book 11, lines 24 - 58
Mourning for Pallas
Odes 1.15
Nereus prophesies the Trojan War
Aeneid Book 8, lines 505 - 531
New allies for Aeneas
by Virgil
ipse oratores ad me regnique coronam
Evander suggests to Aeneas an alliance with the Etruscans
Elegies Book 1.6
No thank you, Tullus
by Propertius
Odes 3.13
O Fons Bandusiae
Aeneid Book 7, lines 54- 78
Omens for Princess Lavinia
Opening lines from Homer’s Iliad
by Pope
The wrath of Peleus' son, the direful spring
A Georgian wit attempts to render the epic of ancient Greece